CVE-2025-32280

WP Project Manager <= 2.6.24 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2025-04-04 00:00
Manab Jyoti Dowarah

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.6.25
Affected Plugin
Project Manager – AI Powered Project Management, Task Management, Kanban Board & Time Tracker
Affected Version
<= 2.6.24
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2025-32280
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At a glance

CVE-2025-32280 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Project Manager WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.6.24. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.6.25; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2025, reported by Manab Jyoti Dowarah.

Vulnerability Overview

The WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.24. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in Project Manager <= 2.6.24 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.

An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Project Manager the fix is 2.6.25: builds <= 2.6.24 are affected, anything from 2.6.25 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.6.25, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Project Manager: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Project Manager 2.6.25 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-32280https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f9e7acc4-8b17-44a8-b20f-4c8f2a36180ahttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32280

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